And so Google has made a minor shift in its policy that has major implications. Up until now it has taken action against ads, not advertisers. If an ad violated one of Google?s terms of use, the search giant would take it out of circulation, but that?s it. Google briefed TBM on its new policy: It will now ban the advertiser, not the ad, effectively neutering the advertiser?s ability to shift from one ad and shell site to another.

(The ending ?page=full seems to break the first link for me, but works fine without.)

From the sound of things as long as you aren't trying to pull off anything fishy, you'll be fine. Not that I'd ever try to pull a fast one on the mighty Evil Empire of G, but guess this just reinforced that mindset.

If you are wondering about whether you will be banned or not think through how Matt Cutts would react if he knew the full scope of what you do: how you get your traffic, what you promise on your landing page, how that matches with your ad copy, etc.

Google does not like Made For AdSense sites and will ban accounts simply for that. If the landing page feels extra-spammy I'd say your account is at risk.

And than when you don't cancel in 30 days it hits reoccuring billing! BANG

and since people are dumb, they dont check there credit reports, get hit 12 times for 89.99 and than finally realize it when there is a pending charge on a cc that they are closing..

do i have experience with reoccuring billing!? it is the best thing in the world!!!

I am sorry for some of the people, but really, its always in the fine print.

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Your argument makes no sense!

Show me in the fine print where it says that the company will wait till the day before the trial ends to ship the product or where they will bill you for 1-2 years worth of rebills in a single charge or that they make it impossible to cancel the subscription.

I got an idea, sign up for an acai berry trial and tell me how your experience is. I used to push these products too until someone I knew placed an order and I saw first hand what she went through.

I moved away from advertising on Google a while ago. I am even starting to move away from Bing and Yahoo. What I find is that buying media on websites, if done properly, is sometimes a lot more effective in terms of ROI.

Not a bad idea as such, since people will move away from online buying if they find they are being taken for a ride repeatedly. Only way to retain online buyers is to regulate the fraudulent ads but that is easier said than done. It would be interesting to see if this is a passing phase or Google is indeed serious about this effort.

Show me in the fine print where it says that the company will wait till the day before the trial ends to ship the product or where they will bill you for 1-2 years worth of rebills in a single charge or that they make it impossible to cancel the subscription.

I got an idea, sign up for an acai berry trial and tell me how your experience is. I used to push these products too until someone I knew placed an order and I saw first hand what she went through.

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Here is what I was talking about...

This is from one of my sites TOS exactly...minus the name...:

Trial Membership

"User understands that the $29.99 monthly fee to access the data on wwwXXXXXXXXXcom will start if User does not cancel during the 3 days or 72 hour trial period. User also understands that after the expiration of the trial period, User may continue to access wwwXXXXXXXXXcom's database as long as Users account is current. User also agrees to pay the monthly charge and will be automatically billed to the credit card listed given to wwwXXXXXXXXXcom until User decides to cancel. User may use the trial period for one time only. User agrees that it will not falsely or fraudulently attempt to reverse or charge back any credit card or ACH payment insofar as it is impossible absent direct third-party fraud to sign up and enroll for the wwwXXXXXXXXXcom subscription service without a valid credit card or bank ABA routing number or account number in hand and such personal information as is required to validate the use of the same."

That is what these people are going through, they are entering their info and not cancelling, I don't know anything about billing 1-2 years a head of time but I do know that it is a business practice to ship as late as you can in order to delay costs etc.

yeah, i definitely got banned. pissed me off, my first really successful adwords campaign... Spent $50 within a few days and made $250 from acai offers. then my account was disabled for deceptive advertising..

Not a bad idea as such, since people will move away from online buying if they find they are being taken for a ride repeatedly. Only way to retain online buyers is to regulate the fraudulent ads but that is easier said than done. It would be interesting to see if this is a passing phase or Google is indeed serious about this effort.

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yeah i absolutely hate regulation and "cracking down", but people seriously need to consider the big picture. Every time someone gets completely ripped off with these rebill offers, they become that much more wary of buying into any sort of hype whatsoever

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